A place for librarians to get and share information, ideas and inspiration about serving youth of all ages--and their caregivers. Especially for librarians in west-central Wisconsin's Indianhead Federated Library System.

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Friday, August 31, 2012

Tiffany Meyer enlisted some wonderful community experts and partners, along with her own creativity, to make the Summer Library Program in Dresser a great success. There was a pop-up planetarium, a local herbalist taking kids on a lawn walk to spot common useful herbs, someone who helped kids make ice cream, a master gardener, and more!

A rock expert brought in lots of fossils, geodes, and more, and kids got to take home a souvenir!

Hard to go wrong with chalk and spray bottles--they also made paper and ice paintings this hot summer!

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Thanks to Tessa Michaelson Schmidt for sharing this FREE and RELEVANT webinar opportunity! If you are planning to attend our excellent workshop about Futureproofing your library that morning, don't worry if you can't get back to your library in time, the session will be archived!

Monday, August 27, 2012

Eau Claire school librarians are an amazing bunch. Rebecca Hogue Wojahn, who has written several well-received nonfiction titles for kids, has a new novel, to be published next week! Malcolm at Midnight looks like a great read for middle grades: Malcolm, a smaller than average rat, loves life at McKenna School and the secret society of classroom pets that keep children out of trouble, but when Aggy the iguana disappears Malcolm must use all of his ratty persistence to prove his innocence and save her.

For more about the author and the story, see the interview by Rob Reid on his blog, The Heart of a Child.